Look­ing back at this, I’m happy to say that while my think­ing on sev­eral of the key ideas has advanced quite a bit in the past 12 months (see our more recent mate­ri­als), the core ideas and con­cepts remain vital.

Those are, briefly:

Big Data is use­less unless peo­ple can engage with it effectively

Dis­cov­ery is a crit­i­cal and inad­e­quately acknowl­edged aspect of sense mak­ing that is core to real­iz­ing value from Big Data

Dis­cov­ery is lit­er­ally the most impor­tant human/machine inter­ac­tion in the emerg­ing Age of Insight